Chuck Norris as Cordell "Cord" Walker during the filming of an episode of the television series "Walker, Texas Ranger" in 1997. CBS PHOTO ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES
No longer will he put his feet where he wanted to (and that was often "on necks"), as his character, Colonel James Braddock, boasted in Missing in Action III (1988). He will no longer deliver his famous high kicks in productions that delighted B-movie fans in the 1980s, then teenagers in the 1990s who passed time watching the TV series Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-2001).
The American actor Chuck Norris died on Friday, March 20, at the age of 86, his family announced. He was one of the kings of Reagan-era action cinema, as journalist Nick de Semlyen recounted in the book Last Action Heroes (2023). With the passage of time, this filmography from the end of the 20th century seems to have heralded Trumpism, with its pronounced taste for strong men, comfortable in their genre and with simple, expedient solutions.
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